Great descriptions of the Antarctica and the surrounding area, whilst on board a ship.
A cute and an easy read.
A misdirected email then a redirected email forms a friendship between two strangers. Through the pages we see how their lives change via the Internet.

Amy Cameron is single and works at Edinburgh Variety Theatre as marketing and communications manager. Cameron is a photographer working on an Antarctic Expedition. Amy accidentally receives an email that should have been sent to a photographer with a similar email address. Amy searches photographic sites on the Internet to find a photographer called Cameron and forwards the email.

I loved this. Amy was lonely and unhappy with her life. She used to be a musician but after a very bad case of stage fright and a bad review she stopped playing her violin.

Cameron replies to Amy and keeps sending emails describing his exiting life photographing penguins.

Amy looks forward to his emails and replies, making out that her life is more interesting than it really is.

This was a fun love story about friendships, families, musicians and photographers. Set in Edinburgh in the present time with the backdrop of an old Victorian music hall where the staff try to find a way to encourage audiences to shows held by Edinburgh Variety.
Lots of humorous situations. A good twist at the end. Thank you NetGalley and One More Chapter for a chance to read this e-Book. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

I’m clearly in the minority here, based on the reviews lol, but I actually really enjoyed this book!

It did take me a little bit to get into the book towards the beginning, but I wasn’t even halfway through the book before I was hooked.

I loved reading Amy & Cam’s (sorry, Cameron’s) email exchanges.

The MC’s hadn’t even met, and I was still rooting for them both.

The book was a very easy and quick read, and I found myself not wanting to put it down at times.

I will say I wish we got more scenes with both MC’s once they had met.

For those of you that like your “clean” books as well, there’s no spice in this one at all. But I honestly didn’t even miss it. This is one of those books that works perfectly without it.

Don’t take all the negative reviews to heart, and give it a chance for yourself. You won’t know if you like it unless you try it.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Collins for the eARC, I really enjoyed this book!

Amy and Cameron have never met, but have very similar emails. When Amy gets an email about a gallery opportunity she finds who she thinks it was meant to be sent to, Cameron. Cameron is an adventurous guy on a boat traveling the Antarctica taking pictures of penguins and whales. Amy is a marketing manager for a failing theater who has big dreams of being a famous musician. They get to know each other through emails and phone calls, or do they?

This was a very interesting book that shows the reality of online dating and how hard it can be to actually meet someone online when you don't know how truthful they are being. I will say that the romance of this book is barely anything due to the nature of the communication only being online. I can also unfortunately relate a ton to Amy where she feels like everyone else has it together and she is being left behind. Her friends were making me upset during this story because my friends did this to me, very unfortunately relatable. I do love that both took the time to improve themselves based on the lies they were telling and followed their own dreams.

thank you to netgalley and the publisher for kindly providing me an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!!

I apologize, but I have never DNF a NetGalley book that I can remember. I was expecting a romance, but I got a very boring story about two people named Cameron, one a girl, Amy Cameron, living in Scotland, and the other a nature explorer with the first name of Cameron who is exploring Antarctica. They meet online via a botched e-mail and grow closer via boring emails. None of it made much sense to me, and I knew by the second chapter it would not be a book for me. I stopped and tried it again, but I am sorry. I couldn’t get through this one.

I will not post an online review. Thanks for the ARC.

I'm torn between saying 2.5 or 3 stars, so for ratings, I'll give it 3 stars.

The description of this book really drew me in, especially the concept with the You Got Mail vibes it promised, but unfortunately, this story fell flat as a romance. I was completely bored with the slow pace (it took a while for me to finish the book since I could only read it for short periods of time). Nothing about the emails seemed romantic, it was more about friendship-level conversations then add in the fact that Amy and Cameron don’t even meet in person until almost at the end of the book. How was this a romance? I honestly felt they should’ve just stayed as friends as I couldn’t really picture them as a romantic couple. I found the end abrupt and not really being a fan of Amy, I do wish we would’ve gotten to know Cameron more or maybe had his POV instead of just Amy’s the entire time. Maybe it would’ve helped the story more. I’m not going to say don’t read this book, but I am saying go into it with an open mind that this isn't the romance I was expecting, even at one point I hoped for it to be a hallmark-style romance but it just never got there; you might like it more than I did.

A very cute book. More of a coming of age than a romance. But both situations are done really well. I loved that the book was set in Scotland too. Now I plan to read the author’s earlier works. It was that good.

I thought this was pretty cute. I liked the characters and I thought the writing was great. I have been kind of experimenting on these sort of books to see what I like and what I don't.

The premise of a meet-cute with a email pen pal really drew me to this story. Unfortunately, it was a meh story with mean girls. The Typo need more romance, and less bad friends and emails.

Thank you, HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter | One More Chapter

This was a cute Scottish romance some parts were a little slow but it was an enjoyable read.

Amy feels like she is at a dead end. All of her friends are pairing off and the theatre that she works at is on the verge of closing. When she receives an email about an art exhibit she knows immediately it is not for her. She scours the internet until she finds the correct person. This starts up an unlikely relationship. However feeling unaccomplished Amy embellishes her life just a bit. What will a little catfishing hurt anyway right??? She does not believe she will actually ever meet him anyway.

The first part of the book I could not wait for the responses from Cameron. Amy’s story in the beginning was slow and not very interesting. She was very self deprecating. However, as her story progressed my feelings changed. As Amy started to develop feeling for Cameron, she wanted to be the person that he now thinks she is. She starts to develop confidence in herself and really starts to grow. At this point I found myself wanting more of her story and less of the letters from Cameron.

I did like the ending. I thought everything worked out well in the end. That is what made this a four star as opposed to a 3. There were some slow parts but it did pick up and everyone got the HEA in the end.

I was more than 60% in, but I just couldn't continue. Although pitched as a romance, I failed to see any romantic elements. It doesn't qualify as a slow burn because the emails exchanged between FMC and MMC were merely friendly, lacking any flirting or spark. The correspondence consisted solely of informational exchanges between them. While I appreciated the FMC's efforts to make changes in her life, that was the extent of it. I truly wanted to love this story because it sounded promising, but unfortunately, it didn't resonate with me.

Thank you Harper Collins UK and NetGalley for the ARC!

This was a quick, fun read! It was just what I was looking for with a bit of intrigue and a lot of swoon worthy sighs!!

Excited to see what else this author has!

2.5 stars

Whist I tried to like this book and finish it, I just couldn’t. I pretty much DNF’ed this book at 30% and skim read the last few chapters to find out the ending.

While I do like the premise of the book, the relationship development wasn’t there. Unfortunately the couple didn’t meet until 90% of the way through the book and unfortunately that meant I had skim read/skipped over half of the book.
Whilst they did end up meeting at the end, I felt the ending was rushed, especially after the twist that was told to us.
The ending did feel rushed and a little incomplete but I did like the way it allowed me to draw my own conclusions to the story.

May have enjoyed the book more if there was a dual POV..

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK for providing me with an ARC copy of this book

I adored the premise of this book. A friendship is kindled between a photographer and a failed musician after an email mixup connects them.

The format of the story was great, and I really enjoyed the slow build of the connection between the two, and how we got to know them as they got to know each other.

The ending was a tad rushed, and I would have loved to have had more time with them once they met in person. However, the ending was fulfilling and made me smile.

This one took me a while to commit to finishing. I liked the premise. But I do think the author would have done better to pull A & C together soon (like midway through) and let their chemistry develop in person. It would have been a different story, but I think it would have been a better romance. Amy wasn't very likeable as a character throughout most of the book (until about 75% through) and the twist at the end of the book was very convenient to making Amy's character not look as bad. The epilogue showed promise and I think the book would have been better if the author condensed the book by half, created more story between the ending and the epilogue and that be the book. I do like some of Kerr's other works (like the Fixer Upper) so I would like to read more from her. I think this one fell a bit short.
Thank you to #NetGalley and #Harper Collins UK/One More Chapter for the ARC.

I don't really know how to rate this book. I almost dnf'ed at 30% because I couldn't get into the book. After 40% till 80/90% I really liked the book. I liked the way Amy grew as a person and didn't let fear hold her back. I didn't like that Amy and Cameron meet so late in the book and the ending felt rushed.

"The day you stop dreaming is the day you stop living life to the full. Yes, we should all take the time to appreciate the blessings we already have, but we shouldn't let fear hold us back from striving for what our hearts desire."


Thanks NetGalley for a copy of this book

A real feel good read that has you gripped and wanting to know more. I’d highly recommend this book for your summer reading.

The Typo by Emily Kerr was fun if a tad too drawn-out. Set in Edinburgh and starring Amy, a one-time violinist now working in PR for a struggling theatre. In a roundabout sequence of events she ends up in email contact with Cameron, who's working as a photographer on an Antarctic cruise ship. As I read it, I was sailing in the Arctic, having flown to Norway from Edinburgh so it felt made for me.

This book was the opposite of a compliment sandwich: very frustrating in the beginning, kind of good in the middle and then frustrating again at the end.

The positives:
↣ Epistolary romances are my kryptonite, I eat them up every single time. I just love reading characters writing emails or letters to each other, it‘s so romantic to me. I probably also enjoy it so much because I think I can express myself much better in written form than when speaking, but that‘s too much psychoanalyzing for a Goodreads review 😂
↣ While Amy wasn‘t my favourite character, I did like seeing her open up and make new friends. It was nice to see her going out again and trying to be more sociable with her colleagues. Also very superficial but I have never seen a character with my name in a book before, so the author gets some bonus points for inlcuding a badass female side character named Leonie.

The negatives:
↣ A main component of the plot of this romance is not mentioned in the synopsis, but I think it should be. This is not a simple, wholesome emailing back-and-forth between the two mcs. The heroine lies about her identity. She makes up a different profession for herself and keeps on telling the guy about what she has been getting up to on that job even though all of that is completely made up. I didn‘t like this part of the story since it not only made the female main character look deceitful but also just pathetic because she kept on thinking her life was not exciting enough for Cameron (He NEVER gave her any inclination that he would think anything like that, it‘s just her excuse for lying based on overthinking). She even wrote a script for herself for when they called each other the first time so that she wouldn‘t trip up on any of her lies. ExCUSE me?? That is psycho behaviour! 😳 She acted so unreasonably towards him during the ‘third-act conflict‘ (I‘m putting it in quotations cause it really isn‘t that much of a conflict), too — she was being a massive hypocrite.
↣ <b>This book felt like the author had a thesaurus next to her computer while writing this book because some of those vocabulary choices felt so out-of-place. Sentences like „Initially it felt strange to stand on the stage compèring the event…“ felt so unnatural to me and really took me out of the story because I had never heard some of those words before.
↣ Cameron is a sweet guy, but since the story is only told from the heroine‘s POV, we do not get to know as much about him as I‘d like. His emails were cute but the reveal about him at the end seemed so strange and out of left field because we hardly got to know anything about him.

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK for providing me with an ARC copy of this book!

An email sent to the wrong address and what happens next?

When Amy Cameron receives an email, sent in error to a.cameron@myemail.com, she quickly sends a reply to Packwood Gallery telling them of their error. However, the email bounces back, so she decides to try and find the person the email is intended for. After trawling the internet for the photographer with a similar name, she finds the right person and forwards the email to cameron.a@myemail.com, not thinking she would get a reply...

I really enjoyed the concept and backdrop of this novel. I’ve read a few novels by Emily Kerr before and this is my favourite so far.

I’m no stranger to long distance relationships myself, so I liked how the protagonists slowly began building a friendship, sharing anecdotes of their daily life, with a bit of embellishment thrown in. I enjoyed how their backgrounds were vastly different; Amy working in a theatre in Edinburgh and Cameron on a ship sailing the Antarctic waters. Both backdrops were a lovely contrast and well described.

I found both Amy and Cameron to be relatable characters, both openly sharing their lives. The twist was unexpected and made me laugh. However, the conclusion is very satisfying.

I’m a big fan of endings that allow the reader to ponder about what happens next. Therefore I’m happily contemplating a happy ever after for Amy and Cameron.

If you’re looking for a well written friends to lovers novel, this is one you should look out for.

***arc received courtesy of the publisher via NetGalley***